Public Programs

Join the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for Traction: Art Talk with jackie sumell on November 5, 7-9 p.m. jackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose powerful and poignant socially-engaged art project, Solitary Garden, will be on view at UC Santa Cruz November 5, 2019- December 6, 2020. Sumell will be joined in conversation following her presentation by Gina Dent, Feminist Studies professor and prison abolitionist.

Join the IAS on November 15th, 2019 for our quarterly field trip to Bay Area museums. We will visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM). There will be several exciting contemporary art exhibitions on display during our visit.